The cannabis in centuries XVI to XVIII (2)
In 1776 the Declaration of American Independence is written up in paper of Dutch hemp. Parchment copies became (treated leather); this it was the document that finally signed the delegates the 2 of August of 1776.
Their editors, the parents of the American mother country, are in their majority well-known consuming of marijuana.
The hemp fiber thread was used to weave the clothes of the soldiers of Washington in the "weaving beehives" organized by the mothers of the 1776 mother country, of which they descend the present nationalistic patriotic society directly TO GIVE (very against now of the use of the marijuana).
In this year (1776) a cotton t-shirt cost of about 100 to 200 dollars, whereas a hemp fiber t-shirt cost a dollar, as we see the hemp fiber were much more cheap.
In 1791 president Washington tries to foment the domestic industry cultivating in his plantations.
Jefferson alludes to the cannabis as a necessity and animates to the farmers to cultivate this plant instead of the tobacco.
The census of 1850 in the United States entered 8,327 plantations of hemp (greater extensions of 2,000 earth acres) cultivated to make fabrics, canvases and the used cords to even pack the cotton.
Most of these registered plantations they were in the South or the adjacent states, mainly by the possibility of imposing in these places of slaves as cheap manual labor to work in the industry of the hemp.
One of used medical prescriptions more in EE.UU.desde 1842 up to 1890 was elaborated with diverse extracts of marijuana and hashish.
The legal use of the marijuana with medicinal aims continued 1930 throughout and it even played a veterinary medicine role more important.
The medicines made with cannabis extract were made by Eh the European and American Lilly, Parke- Davis, Tildens, Smiths Brothers, Squibb and other many companies and druggists.
Throughout this period a single death produced by the consumption of these medicines was not entered nor, far from it caused mental upheavals.
They only appeared indirect effect disorientation and introversión, in those people who used them for the first time or they did not know how to do it.
